Gatsby got nominated for its visual elements. Production design and costume design I think. You don't think it deserved those?
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Gatsby got nominated for its visual elements. Production design and costume design I think. You don't think it deserved those?
Garcia
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Aaah, you're right. The one that got nominated for best movie was American Hustle (wtf, seriously). The only attractive thing about Gatsby was the insane amount of money spent on the sets and costumes. Still a very shitty movie despite of its veeeery expensive wrapping.
I thought American Hustle had a pretty boring plot, but I thought the characters and the performances were great. Better than most other movies that year including DBC who only really had one interesting character (The main guy). I will say I liked DBC better overall though.
Wolf of Wall Street really felt long and repetitive, but it has its cute little moments. It's not bad.
RatskyWatsky
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:O
We need a like a community meet and greet thing to help the old members get acquainted with the newer members!
Boring, yes. But it's also an audiovisual feast with amazing set design and costumes. It definitely deserved the Oscars that it won.
Don't give me that look. It was.
The gist of it is: Gatsby dies a lonely old man
kinda like I will
Meicyn
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All I know is, those blisters burn in the shower.
Oh, that's me leaving a game running while Toukiden downloads so that I don't get screen burn-in. P4G cycles through the kaleidoscope opening sequence constantly, making the perfect "screen saver". The wifi sucks here in my bunk (better than nothing though given my circumstances), and for some reason it's even worse if the Vita goes on standby. In fact, Toukiden is still trying to download. Hope it finishes sometime today.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
Do you prefer a swifter pacing in the stuff you read? I guess Gatsby is a more character-driven book, and LotR is so preoccupied with building a world that they lose any sense of progress. It could be you prefer a more plot focused approach to things. I might be the same way.
Henchmen21
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I don't remember that part in the book...or movie for that matter. One part of the books that I couldn't stand and often skipped past (and was thankful that they removed for the most part in the movies) was the singing. Totally pointless. That and Tom Bombadil.
Henchmen21
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Um no. The movie showed how you could remove him without losing the pace of the story. What's he there for? To give the hobbits weapons and sing a stupid song. He slows down the story. Having Aragorn give them weapons up on Weathertop you tighten the story up without losing anything but meaningless filler.
He's there to be awesome. Granted I skipped the songs, but I liked the concept of Tom Bombadil, who's basically an extraplanar god that rival even the Maia and may have exceeded them in the end. For more interesting, conceptually, than some midgets bumbling around in midget town for 40 years.
Henchmen21
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Except all of that was stuff from later. Essentially a retcon. He did dick all in LOTR but sing.
Eh, what? I only know about Tom Bombadil from LOTR, I never read the other materials where he makes an appearance. Unless Tom Bombadil was inserted into the edition of LOTR I read?
Henchmen21
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I've only read LOTR and I don't remember them saying in that book where he comes from. I assumed all that godly background you mentioned was from later lore.
It's all inferred. I mean, just the fact that he put on the One Ring without one fuck given says boatloads about what kind of being he is. I read the Silmarillion way before I read LOTR (but after the movies), so I had a pretty good grasp of the overall mythos and was able to work Tom Bombadil into it. To me, he was interesting because he broke the established hierarchy, like Lucifer in The Sandman. I have a penchant for fictional characters who exist "outside the rules", as it were.
Oh dear, I didn't think I posted that much.
But slay blue badger sis.
Also I'm pretty convinced at this point I'm not gay desirable. Not one guy at the homo bar hit on me over 2 nights. I mean I made out with one but I already knew him. Guess I'll go back to being straight again (LOL)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zia8NjQCEnUSnakes are sooooooo qt.
"Am I kawaii? Uguu!"
umop_3pisdn
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Snakes are sooooooo qt.
"Am I kawaii? Uguu!"
Apparently pythons are also cute since they have puppy faces.
michaeltraps
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Belding's face and pose in this....lol. It just screams: "This is all we got, folks."
Any Ophidiophobic lurkers probably hate us right now.
Could just be bad luck. 2 nights is a pretty short period of time to judge
I have a hard time with meeting anybody, but I'm 90% sure it's due to me completely lacking social skills and having a bad skin problem.
Could just be bad luck. 2 nights is a pretty short period of time to judge
I have a hard time with meeting anybody, but I'm 90% sure it's due to me completely lacking social skills and having a bad skin problem.
michaeltraps
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Shoes: polished, speech: written, hair: cut. Time to get pretty.
michaeltraps
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Thanks guys!
Best man for my friends' wedding! And thank you!
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
That's not true! You're prefect boo and fuck those all trashy bar gays who can't see it!
You have to give a speech? :/
Describing every. fucking. tree. on. the. journey, is filler, dude. World building is fine and all but if you're spending 5-10 pages on describing a scene... maybe it's time to cut back on that.
At this point a modern Middle Earth translation could be described as: "Go look at pictures of New Zeland. Now we're getting on with the story."
I need pics to judge.
I missed this post somehow. Guuurl... Now you know it's not true. And RatskyWatsky said it perfectly:
This x100.
Audiences always like things that critics don't really care for or mildly enjoy. You can't really take Rotten Tomatoes as anything more than a gauge of "oh you may/may not enjoy it."
On an unrelated note: Can I just say how much I have a weird crush on
Seth Rogan despite the fact
Jesus... The whole world is upside down.
Just where did good taste go? *smh*.
Well, at least we can all agree with this one:
It probably went out the window when The Artist won that one year.
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